There is a lot of cussing and discussing about rollover nights. If you search this forum for rollover you will find many posts. Unfortunately even MR was confused in the beginning and since they only extend the benefit a year at a time they have little in "formal rules" to help us all understand.

Basically, rollover nights are not considered "earned" nights. They do count to help you maintain status the following year. They do count again for lifetime nights. They do not roll over a second year. Only "earned" nights above your current status rollover.

So for example, if you are Plat this year, only "earned" nights above 75 will rollover to next year. You must "earn" more than 75 nights next year to get any rollover nights for the following year.

If you "earn" 150 or over nights this year, your Plat status is intact until Feb 2015 even if you have no nights next year. However, if you do not "earn" at least 75 nights in 2013 or 2014, you will not have any rollover nights and your status should drop on March 2015 to Gold (MR does soft landings) until Feb 2016.

To add to the frustration, IF you drop to Gold and then do 51 - 74 nights, you can get up to 24 rollover nights. Should you make 75 nights, then you get zero rollover nights!

I hope this helps. I think the previous posts pretty much say the same thing with less words. Next year it could be totally different, if at all, depending upon what MR chooses to do (to us).

Unfortunately Marriott Concierge is not spending much time on FT to help us get official answers to MR program questions (and when rollover nights first came out even they were wrong on how it worked). They did step up and corrected those accounts when we requested.